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If a baby was born with help of Cesarean section, this means that his first cry – is a special miracle. But you need to recover as soon as possible after this operation to enjoy happiness of maternity.

First days after Cesarean section are most difficult. Such small things, like turning sideways, coughing, taking a deep breathe or reaching a bed is so difficult for you now.

FIRST DAYS

During the first day after operation a new mother is in intensive care, where a nurse and anaesthetist take care after her. They take her blood pressure, pulse rate, temperature, value level of uterus contraction and intensity of vaginal secretions, urination.

A nurse changes bandages in the area of postoperative stitch. After taking epidural or spinal anesthesia a woman should stay in bed from 3 to 12 hours. She should get up little by little, without haste, sudden moves and surely in presence of some medical staff or relatives. She can sit on 2nd-3rd day after operation.

To feel more comfortable after operation, you just should follow these advices:

Turning aside

1. It will be easier for you to turn from back to side, if you, first of all, bend your knees so that your feet would set against a level you are lying on.

2. Set you feet against this level and raise your hips so that to draw yourself up from shoulders to knees.

3. Turn your hips aside and pull down them. Then turn an upper part of your body to the same direction.

So, you are lying on side. Such method saves your stitches from damage and prevents your elbows from painful rubbing against bed-sheets.

Cough

If you were given general anaesthetic during operation, you need to cough to get rid of slime that accumulated in your lungs.

Use a simple technique called “woof” to clear your throat without painful sensations. Regardless of its ironic name, it is really effective and recommended by experts.

1. You need to strengthen stitches with your hands, small pillow or tie them up with a towel.

2. Now take a deep breath, filling your lungs completely.

3. Next action – full breath, sharply, but accurately – drawing inside your belly, but swelling it.

4. Utter a sound, resembling “bow-wow”.

5. Repeat several times during an hour, especially if you feel gurgling or sobs in your thorax. If your thorax is clear and you get up regularly, there is no need to do this often.

Going up and walking

A nurse will help you getting up firstly after your doctor’s permission. While doing this you may feel weakness and dizziness. Don’t be frightened! This is natural, as you just have had a cavernous operation! Regardless of whether you were given general anaesthetic or epidural anesthesia, feeling of weakness while first raises is inevitable.

Now, having raised firstly, think that most difficult things are in past already, and your first raising already means that you are on your way to recovery and it will pass smoothly and quickly.

Do the following exercises to get up:

1. Turning on side, allow your legs lean over edge of a bed and move to a sitting position.

2. Sit for a while and do moves with your legs.

3. When you are ready, pull your feet down and stand up (surely with someone’s assistance). Try to stand as straight as you can. This will not damage your stitches, even if it seems they are stretching.

4. Once you get used to standing, make a small step.

Every time while getting up, you will notice that it becomes easier for you.

Now try to increase duration of your walks little by little. You just should not forget to think:

- I’m a good girl. I grow stronger with every step. Each move approaches my discharge.

Wind

They appear after any operation on abdominal cavity. A reason of this trouble is slowing down of intestinal activity as a result of operation.
Following exercises will help you to cope with wind:

- deep breathing;

- swinging in an arm-chair (if you suffer from wind at home already);

- exclusion of food and drinks causing wind from postoperative ration.

Urination

Another delicate topic – is possible difficulties with urination. They may appear only after catheter in ureter, anesthesia and operation on abdominal cavity.

Don’t worry, drink more liquid, try to urinate in shower or bath. If you cannot urinate by yourself, you still need catheter to empty urinary bladder.

WHOLESOME NUTRITION

Day 1st.

A woman can drink non-gas water, acidulated with lemon juice. Taking into account the fact that usually a drop bottle is used after operation, during first day a mother receives all nutritive materials directly in blood channel.

Day 2nd

On the 2nd day after Cesarean section a woman is transferred from intensive care to a post-natal ward. A diet after Cesarean section resembles a diet after any cavernous operation. Square food is excluded – during this period you need to spare organs of alimentary canal to the maximum.

Day 3rd and later

Food ration should be varied little by little. On the 3rd day after operation you may include a non-fat chicken broth, minced boiled meat, cotton cheese or meat puree or souffl